Alternative Investments
The latest news and developments about alternative investments and how they can help boost portfolio performance and reduce risk
Laptop Stolen? Blow It Up!
By Staff WriterComputerWorld recently reported on the theft of yet another laptop computer that contains vital, sensitive, private information about innocent people. Read about why NU Tech ...
May 01, 2007
Protecting the family interestsIt is said that paying estate taxes is voluntary. That is, a client can plan to minimize his estate tax exposure. One of the most common estate tax planning tools is an irrevocable life insurance trust (ILIT). The income tax-free death benefit of an
May 01, 2007
Traditional Meets Alternative in the Form of 130/30 FundsTraditional and alternative investment managers now find themselves competing in a new battleground that combines the (1.0) beta exposure and quantitative methodologies of traditional indexed...
May 01, 2007
Behind the Numbers, with Gail DudackThe Principal of the Dudack Research Group believes that equities are presently the best valued asset. "Supporting this view is the fact that the trailing...
April 30, 2007
Protecting the family interestsIt is said that paying estate taxes is voluntary. That is, a client can plan to minimize his estate tax exposure. One of the most common estate tax planning tools is an irrevocable life insurance trust (ILIT). The income tax-free death benefit of an
April 29, 2007
An Estate Liquidity Timebomb Is TickingThe Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 ("EGTRRA") provided some of the most significant estate tax changes in the last 30 years.
April 28, 2007
An Estate Liquidity Timebomb Is TickingThe Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 ("EGTRRA") provided some of the most significant estate tax changes in the last 30 years.
April 25, 2007
UBS Goes GreenUBS will launch the first Global Warming index (UBS-GWI), a tradable benchmark for global investments in the weather derivatives market that is created using liquid, actively traded heating degree day (HDD) and cooling degree day (CDD) weather futures contracts, which settle on the difference between the average daily temperature and...